Despite the latest result, said Autiero, the observed faster-than-light anomaly in the neutrinos' speed from Cern to Gran Sasso needed further scrutiny and independent tests before it could be refuted or confirmed definitively.

Well, a direct result of faster-than-light travel, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, is time-travel: A light signal, and therefore information, could arrive at its destination before it had even been sent!

That Company owes its dominance to a single strange hermit, who came up with device after device like nothing seen before—developments already leading toward interplanetary and even faster-than-light travel.